World War III: 1980's Edition

Faraday Cage

WI: a nuclear "oops!" scenario that didn't happen in OTL occurred in the mid to late 1980's, resulting in nuclear war between the US and USSR?

My own personal take on it would be to detail the reconstruction in the United States, dealing with the National Program Office's re-establishment of government in the more badly stricken East while military governorship under martial law in the less severely attacked but more disorganized West causes a revolution and the formation of a separate government.

The NPO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Program_Office ) is one of my favorite bits of Cold War history, and I think it'd be fun to play around with the scenario of a badly attacked but highly structured garrison state East of the Mississippi while social disorder and more intact infrastructure in the West causes secession.
 
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